Vulcan, Alta., wins a Star Trek compromise

Barry Artiste Op/Ed Nice to know Spock has Vulcan's (Alberta) Back! " CALGARY — Paramount Pictures and the Alberta town of Vulcan have reached a logical compromise in the community’s bid to hold the new...

Doctor Who is Hamlet

A new army of Shakespeare fans may storm Stratford Upon Avon as Dr. Who aka David Tennent scores a massive hit with critics playing Hamlet. Tennent is no fly-by-night TV or movie star deciding to hit the boards...

Beam me from the womb, Scotty: Sci-Fi the next universe for baby names

Another baby story--this afternoon I got to thinking about names (uh-oh, honey...I know I promised but I can't help it). So I started a lazy-ish Google search, and there's a news story about a new book with a...

Patient bleeds dark green blood

"A team of Canadian surgeons got a shock when the patient they were operating on began shedding dark greenish-black blood, the Lancet reports. The man emulated Star Trek's Mr Spock - the Enterprise's science officer who supposedly had green Vulcan blood. In this case, the...

Spock is back! Nimoy to star in new Star Trek film

There's some magic in this formula: Leonard Nimoy returns to the Star Trek franchise + new Trek film + JJ Abrams + Zachary Quinto (Sylar to those Heroes fans out there) as young Spock. What can the sum of all that...

The leader of the project to get a Cold War Vulcan bomber airborne again has ...

"The leader of the project to get a Cold War Vulcan bomber airborne again has won a national award. Dr Robert Pleming, chief executive of the Vulcan to the Sky Trust, was named preservationist of the year 2007...

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